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Barrow - ditch barrow

Oldtown (Bennett), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Oldtown (Bennett), County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Oldtown (Bennett)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48253, -8.39586
SMR number
LI033-162----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

One of a group of five possible ditch-barrows (LI033-176/79----). Cropmark of ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 18/11/2018 at this location. Outline of barrow clearly visible on OSi orthoimage taken between 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 30 August 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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